Post-decision confidence, decision time, and self-reported decision processes as postdictors of identification accuracy

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 611-625

  Sauerland, Melanie ^a   Sporer, Siegfried L ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment variables; Automatic vs. eliminative decision processes; Decision time; Post decision confidence; Recollective experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949017503     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160701264561     Document Type: Article

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